28 April 2008
Head of News International James Murdoch has claimed that Ofcom is attempting to regulate the television industry at the onset of the digital age.
Mr Murdoch suggested that the regulator is scared that it will lose power over the industry and that is why it is attempting to enforce such measures, reports the Guardian.
"The confusion and anxiety referred to is in the minds only of the elites who are terrified by people taking power from them. Nor is it the job of a regulator to invent sources of potential harm and forestall them," he said in relation to Ofcom's own comments.
He added that certain rules - such as one that banished a show because it apparently promoted an overseas telephone company - prove the "establishment's much deeper discontent with a free media".
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